#and vice versa of course

[paranormaljones]

Friendly reminder that due to the height difference between Lockwood and Lucy, if Lucy were perhaps to give Lockwood a hug and play her cards right, she could end up with her ear directly over his heart.

[harboneger]

Just wrote my grandpa a 1400 word email about the Servais trade. Baseball may not be fun right now but at least it gives me wonderful opportunities to infodump

[meezer]

me and oomf 😭🤣

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

I- uh- heheh….

Sometimes… you just gotta stick your comfort character in a pretty outfit, to get rid of all your troubles.

They’re at an awards show and won a fashion award and also had to show off one of the things he made-

Bonus (ft. Shinya progressively getting more and more infatuated with their spouse <3):

(And maybe also getting slowly more drunk as the awards show progresses- much to the amusement of their friends-)

You can pry genderfluid Tsunagu out of my cold dead hands- /lh

[xalatath]

When I told my brother I started T he asked if my ovaries were gonna turn into balls and honestly. Medical science should start working towards that

[coldbrewnette]

Why do brazilians either hate argentina or are very nice about it all 😭 LOL

[digitalgirls]

it's kinda crazy how some of us have been following each other since 2019, or even before that in like 2017/2018....you all literally saw me grow up

[the-faultofdaedalus]

magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.

because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!

needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture

[snowychicken]

They should make an app so that I can share whatever I'm listening to and my friends can tune in and listen with me in real time

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

Clarification: the point of MDZS isn't to distrust every rumour you hear. Some of the rumours in the prologue turn out to be right! The Jiang clan did take Wei Wuxian off the streets! Wei Wuxian did destroy (half of) the Yin Hufu before he died (and did ‘destroy the weapon’ in the sense it couldn’t be used anymore, because it required two halves to work)! He was one of the most promising cultivators and found success at a young age! He did die!

The point is thinking critically about the information you receive. Don't believe something because it suits what you want to think of someone, or because everyone else is agreeing with it. Believe it because there's strong evidence for it. Lan Wangji puts it best:

Lan WangJi slowly shook his head, “One should not comment without understanding the whole picture.” - Chapter 30, EXR translation

With Wei WuXian expanding on the reasoning (same chapter):

Just like you, I don’t understand the whole picture, so I’m not going to comment either. You’re right. Before knowing all of the turns and twists, causes and effects, nobody should presume anything about anything.

(And for context, this attitude is proven right! The conversation is about whether Xiao Xingchen performed lingchi on (severely tortured) Chang Ping, and there end up being so many unexpected twists and turns in his story that any judgement made without evidence would have been impossible to get right*. Wei Wuxian only makes his guess – that Xue Yang did it to take revenge for Xiao Xingchen, in his twisted way – after he has the relevant information of the Yi City quartet's story. And, seeing the nerves he hit, it seems to be correct.)

In fact, that's something we ourselves have to do throughout the course of the novel – weighing up what we know of Wei Wuxian's past deeds with what we see of his personality and actions in the present day. Those who still blindly trust the rumours up until the Second Siege are shown how unwise that is by being proven wrong... but that's not because having any opinion that happens to agree with a rumour, no matter the amount of evidence, is automatically wrong. As I mentioned, some of the rumours are correct! It's because how Wei Wuxian acted in the present day – ie the concrete evidence we have – didn't match up.

Blindly distrusting rumours is exactly the same as blindly trusting them.

---

*Without making a random, lucky guess. And since that would have no proof behind it, and a greater chance of being wrong... well, I think we can all afree that random unbased guesses aren't the way to solve mysteries.

[gloriousmonsters]

listened to most of The Art of War while hanging clothes at my job earlier and I'm going to just distill down the real advice for y'all without the twenty thousand similes and metaphors and such

Wars are expensive have them really fast

Don't kill your soldiers they need food and stuff

But sometimes put your soldiers into inescapable life or death situations because that's how you really get them to be workin' hard instead of hardly workin', y'know

Have more guys than the enemy and be smarter. The best way to win a war is to have every single favorable condition for winning a war. Hope that helps

DO NOT fight in a salt marsh

If your boss gives you a stupid order, don't follow that order

Be 15 min early to the battlefield

Attack the enemy's weak points. But also they might be faking weaknesses so don't attack if they seem weak. But attack their weak points. But also-

For the love of god don't let anyone read omens

[ingravinoveritas]

I mean...

[wizardpink]

HOT TAKE but I'm okay with it being out of spite. Because if it is spite, it isn't "you told me not to harm him so I made him a vampire" spite.

It's "you stayed with me for 77 years to spite Lestat. Because he couldn't stand to see you spend eternity with another lover. Well guess what Louis? Now YOU can spend eternity seeing ME with another lover, your precious fascinating boy!"

[ohdeargodwhy]

[sometimeswritingsometimesdying]

fellas is it gay to steal your best friend's jacket with his last name on it?

[sissytobitch10seconds]

Calypso isn't that bad, you guys are just mean.